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One who seasons with spice.

sometimes, life itself. [Obs.] "All of spirit would deprive." Spenser. The mild air, with season moderate, Gently attempered, and disposed eo well, That still it breathed foorth sweet spirit. Spenser.

plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.

The season of spring; springtide.

form; character; as, a man of the same stamp, or of a different stamp. A soldier of this season's stamp. Shak.

g, or directing; as, the steerage of a ship. He left the city, and, in a most tempestuous season, forsook the helm and steerage of the common wealth. Milton.

orm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy day or week. "Beyond the stormy Hebrides." Milton.

Hour; time; season. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.

Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing.

f certain plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, beet root, sugar maple, etc. It is used for seasoning and preserving many kinds of food and drink. Ordinary sugar is essentially sucrose. See the Note below.

The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.

A beverage of molasses and water, seasoned with vinegar and ginger. [U. S.]

A Mexican dish made of crushed maize mixed with minced meat, seasoned with red pepper, dipped in oil, and steamed.

Not being inseason; late; dilatory; -- opposed to prompt; as, to be tardy in one's payments. Arbuthnot. The tardy plants in our cold orchards placed. Waller.

ation of the causes which produce the succession of day and night, and the changes of the seasons. [Written also tellurion.]

temperature is, to have openness in fame and opinion, secrecy in habit, dissimulation in seasonable use, and a power to feign, if there be no remedy. Bacon. Memory depends upon the consistence and the temperature of the brain. I. Watts.

Seasonable; timely; as, tempestive showers. [Obs.] Heywood. -- Tem*pes"tive*ly, adv. [Obs.]

The quality, or state, of being tempestive; seasonableness. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

evil; seduction. When the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season. Luke iv. 13.